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TIL Neil deGrasse was dismissed for jury duty as he teaches a class in Princeton that looks at the “evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.”

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16ZgD TIL that Mark Yavorsky, the inspiration behind Werner Herzog's film "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done," had erected a shrine to Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God." This concerned Herzog so much that the two never met again.
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4X6N5 TIL Some members of the Donner party survived after their campfire fell through 25 feet of snow and landed on the ground, creating a cave-like area for them to shelter from an incoming winter storm.
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